He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
-- On Pitt's First Speech, Feb. 26, 1781, From Wraxall's Memoirs,
-- First Series, Vol. i, p. 342
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
-- On Pitt's First Speech, Feb. 26, 1781, From Wraxall's Memoirs,
-- First Series, Vol. i, p. 342
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